Assembly is a new kind of company purposefully designed to ameliorate many of the current issues faced by traditional book publishers. We have years of experience working in literally every area of publishing, from operations to editorial to accounting to publicity and sales. This means we have a unique understanding of how all the different publishing pieces fit together, and of how we can reshape them into a modern independent book publishing company designed to thrive in today’s climate.

We’ll do this by partnering with our authors to centre their goals throughout the whole publishing process, by cultivating supportive author-editor relationships, and executing author-centric, flexible, long-term promotion and marketing plans.

The work undertaken by Assembly Press happens on traditional Indigenous territories across Canada, and we are grateful to live, serve, and create on this land. Most frequently, our team operates in the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee people in Prince Edward County, and the lands which constitute the present-day City of Mississauga as part of the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat and Wyandot Nations.

We recognize that as settlers we are inheritors of a legacy of inequity, and through our work, we strive to improve equity in the literary arts. We encourage you to learn more about the land you occupy by visiting Native-Land.ca and to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, especially as they related to language and culture, and consider how you might help implement them.